suavity

Questions about suavity

What does suavity mean?

suavity means "the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner".

How many syllables are in suavity?

suavity has 4 syllables and divides as su-a-vi-ty under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for suavity?

Close synonyms include suaveness, blandness, smoothness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is suavity a common word?

suavity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.